jQuery 1.7.1 Released—
jQuery 1.7.1 is a minor release of jQuery 1.7 where the core team has "made Pilgrim's progress on a cornucopia of bugs."

The jQuery Team Wants Your jQuery 1.8 Ideas—
The jQuery core team says it's ready for a new round of community input, this time for jQuery 1.8. It's your chance to suggest things for them to fix, change, or remove in order to make jQuery better. A few ideas so far are also mentioned in this post.

Articles

How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js—
Over at Smashing Coding, Zack Grossbart shows off how to use the Paper.js drawing and animation library to.. well.. make an animation. For a brief tutorial, the outcome is effective.

Porting from jQuery to Zepto—
Zepto is a minimalist JS framework for mobile WebKit browsers with a jQuery-compatible syntax. In this article, Pamela Fox discusses how she ported her PhoneGap Android app from jQuery to Zepto and what issues arose.

ECMAScript 6 Looks Promising—
A quick look at some new features coming up in ECMAScript 6 (ECMAScript being the standardized parent language behind JavaScript) including the 'let' keyword, default arguments, and multi-line strings.

Dave Herman: The Future of JavaScript [video]—
A 50 minute presentation by Dave Herman (a Mozilla Labs engineer and TC39 representative) at YUIConf 2011 about the future of JavaScript, including features under consideration for ECMAScript 6.

Microsoft on Evolving ECMAScript—
At last week's ECMA TC39 meeting, Microsoft shared reference implementations of proposals to address gaps in Math, String, and Number functionality as well as Globalization. It has also released these reference implementations via its HTML5 Labs site.

DBi: WebSQL Database Driver for WebKit Browsers—
DBi is a JavaScript object that takes the pain out of using the client-side database on WebKit browsers (mobile & desktop). You can open a database, create tables, indices, triggers and views, and populate tables all from one JSON file.